Daily Archives: August 10, 2016

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A commentary published in Nature has claimed that careless human exploitation of natural resources poses a far greater threat to endangered species than climate change. Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers There is a growing tendency for media reports about threats to biodiversity to focus on climate change.…

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war From AGU WASHINGTON, DC — A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new…

From AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY and the National Geographic, wrong again department comes this bit of good news. Warmer climate could lower dengue risk Health researchers predict that the transmission of dengue could decrease in a future warmer climate, countering previous projections that climate change would cause the potentially lethal virus to spread more easily. Hundreds…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story was conceived in a washout of a Summer on Lake Geneva. Does this make Frankenstein a metaphor for a homeless climate refugee? Seeing ‘Frankenstein’ through the lens of climate change … In France, they met up with Mary’s half-sister Claire, Lord Byron (Claire’s lover), and Byron’s…

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